the rest, only noise

Chapter 1035 Undecided Future

"Master... the head coach?"

Tomjanovich was taken by surprise.

"You look surprised." Louis didn't want to be polite with Rudy, "Are you going to be my teaching assistant for the rest of your life?"

Louis was moved by Tomjanovich's answer: "It's not impossible."

"Look, Rudy, if Jeff, Billy, and Phil can coach, you can too. You'll do better than them."

Louie doesn't want to see this famous coach who has left famous quotes in NBA history because he can only be an assistant coach for a lifetime because of his time travel.

It's not fair to him.

Tomjanovich guessed that Louis should have prepared a good place for him.

"Where do you want me to be the head coach?"

"It's in New York."

Tomjanovich said incredulously, "New Jersey?"

"What bullshit are you talking about? Does New Jersey count as New York?" Louis said contemptuously, then said solemnly, "The New York I'm talking about is the New York Knicks."

A breeze blew just right in front of Louie and Tomjanovich.

"Today is not April Fool's Day."

"You know I hate this stupid holiday."

Tomjanovich said gravely: "I hope you're not joking about it."

"I'm serious, Rudy."

"I don't understand, Louie, if you're kidding, it's not funny. In my opinion, you have no reason to quit coaching the Knicks. You built this team, you made the Knicks go from a New York City shame and joke to an iconic professional sports team, and you made even a behemoth like the Yankees terrified that the Knicks would take away the Yankees' place in New York."

Louie listened silently.

"This team has been fighting for many years. Although it has aged to a certain extent, a few days ago, we defeated Portland again and won the sixth championship, and the sixth consecutive championship! Louis! Are you going to leave this team alone?"

Louie still didn't answer Tomjanovich.

"You asked me during the game, how do you keep this team, and now this team is still intact, and you want to give them up? What's going on?"

Tomjanovich said a lot.

Louis felt very reasonable, but these words did not move him.

"Rudy, guess why I came to New York from Boston?"

"You set out to be someone like Reed, and now you are."

"Yes, that's what I thought at first."

Louis does not deny his original intention.

But the reason why the original intention is valuable is that it is difficult to maintain the original.

"But now, I have some new thoughts. My thoughts now are that I have won everything that I should have won as the coach of this team. In the process, I have worked hard and given my all. I lost a lot of things. I lost the drive I came in, I lost my drive, and worst of all, I lost myself."

Louis thought of many things that happened this season. If he were to deal with them in Boston, he might use thunder to cut off the source. However, during the season, he only wanted to maintain stability, maintain balance, and turn conflicts within the team into the team's competitiveness.

To put it bluntly, this is to bury the mine deeper and deeper. The only difference is whether it explodes early or late.

Young Louie would detonate a landmine the instant he found it, and then reassemble what had been shattered.

The current Louis would not do that.

As Louie said, while he was building a career in New York, he also lost himself.

Six consecutive championships is the limit he can achieve, and he is also satisfied with this result.

It couldn't have been better.

That's why he had to hit the pause button.

People must know the trade-offs, advance and retreat.

"You asked me to think about it." Tomjanovich said, "You should also think about it. You have to know that this decision is not only about you and me, but many people will lose sleep over it. Think about Patrick, think about Benj, think about Dennis, think about Sean, think about Jack (Kruger), think about Zhao, think about the fans in New York..."

"I'm lazy and don't want to use so many brains. They will understand when the time comes. You just need to be prepared."

In the end, Louis did not give Tomjanovich any room to bargain, but gave orders.

"If I don't want to, even you can't force me."

"If I were you and had the opportunity to coach this team after being an assistant coach for more than ten years, I would agree without hesitation. You have to know that the coaches who want to coach the Knicks can be drained from my house to your house."

Even though Louis said all the hard and soft words, Tomjanovich didn't agree on the spot.

This made Louis very unhappy.

Because if you want to choose his successor, Rudy is the only option.

Over the years, Rudy has done a great job as his chief assistant.The Knicks' daily training sessions are always presided over by Rudy. He has unmatched prestige among the players. At the same time, he has followed Louis for many years and knows the team well. He is familiar with every player. Even Rodman respects him very much.

There are indeed many people who want to be the Knicks coach.

But Tomjanovich is the only one with this qualification and ability.

If he doesn't accept it, Louis really can't just quit.

The next day, Louis' life remained peaceful.

During this offseason, he wanted to take a good rest. For this reason, he rejected the annual meeting (Let Baylor participate on his behalf), canceled the annual China trip (the road school’s study abroad program in the United States remains as usual), and only worked until the end of the draft.

After the draft this year, he will take a long vacation for himself.

Compared with last year, this year's offseason is very peaceful.

Phil Jackson still calls to talk to Louie about Weber.

After Louie's enlightenment, Jackson let go of his prejudice against Weber, resisted all opinions, and made the Magic's top executives give up the plan to trade the No. [-] pick.

This is also the most reasonable choice.

In Louie's previous life, the reason why the Magic traded the No. 1993 pick in [-] was that O'Neal liked to play with Hardaway—who doesn't like a guard who can pass the ball to him?It was an era when rookies dared to open their mouths and "give me [-] million dollars", and as long as a player like Weber entered the league, he would definitely have a starting maximum salary.

Hardaway doesn't have this kind of trouble. Although he is also favored by scouts, his market is not as good as Webber.

In Louie's current situation, the standard rookie contract was officially introduced in 1988 under his promotion.

This changed the rules of the game during the offseason, and turned the rules into a giant butterfly flapping its wings, which brought many unexpected changes.

The night before the 1993 NBA Draft, Louie attended a June Party in New York City hosted by Madison Square Garden Company Entertainment.

The party was thrown to celebrate the Knicks winning the title.

All players and coaching staff were present.

MSG executives headed by Jack Kruger also came.

"Dennis, don't you think the white hair style is not suitable for you?"

"Fuck you, my head, which is one in a million, can control all styles!"

The player's swearing added a bit of air to this seemingly high-end party.

"Lu, I have good news for you."

Kruger blushed.

Louis asked: "Could it be that the higher-ups decided not to sell the team?"

"Yes, not exactly."

Louie instantly knew what had happened.

"They decided to sell part of the stake?"

"That's right." Kruger laughed. "Although the NFL's cake is big, they are not sure whether they are greeted by another Knicks, because the NFL team waiting for a new owner is another New York Jets."

The Jets are to New York what the Clippers are to Los Angeles.

Mention it, everyone will frown, disgusting.

It's certainly good news that the old club changed their plans and decided to keep the team, but it's not that important to Louie anymore.

In addition to successfully handing over the coaching whip to Rudy, Louis has to seriously consider his future in New York.

He has been thinking about this question recently, whether it will be good or bad for him to stay in New York.

There's no doubt that if he stays here, he'll be New York's Reed Auerbach, ruling this team until he's as old as the old man he is now.

This means he will have the power to kill the Knicks.

Sounds cool, but Louie isn't thrilled about it.

Veteran Japanese movie fans usually don't bother with Marseilles.

But they attach great importance to the "scale" of stars.

If a celebrity chooses to unlock the restricted area in order to stimulate fans, such as playing against black people, such as opening the back door, or such as the old driver who is popular with rookies playing Kled off the horse, it will greatly reduce their interest in the actor.

Some things are valuable because they are precious, and if you get them easily, you won't value them as much as you did before.

Therefore, Ai Uehara is an epoch-making monster. She can guarantee the output of at least five or six classes a month.

It's not a question of whether Louie wants to be New York's Auerbach, but New York wants him to be Auerbach.

But Louis, like thousands of senior Japanese moviegoers, has a big pig's nature, and the more readily available, the less he cherishes.

The thing is, he could say no to New York, to be the city's Reed Auerbach, but why?There must be a reason.

What's wrong with New York?
There is absolutely nothing bad about New York for a winner.

So, this is what troubled Louie.

He feels like the protagonist in a certain Japanese epic dung that has been blown up to the sky and the earth is right now. After the death of the world, the scumbag explained the reason why he did this: I don’t know, I just want to do it.

Well, that's right.

Louis didn't know why he thought so, but that's what he thought.

(End of this chapter)